Manhattan Monthly - January 2008

NEWS

New Residence Hall To House
Growing Number of Jaspers

Frederic V. Salerno

The class of 2012 has yet to step on campus, but arrangements are well underway for their arrival. Later this year, Manhattan College will unveil its new residence hall, East Hill Tower II, which a group of Jaspers will soon call home. Ground was broken on East Hill Tower II in December 2006, and the state-of-the-art residence hall is on schedule to be completed in July. The attractive structure that overlooks Van Cortlandt Park will eventually provide a safe home for some 550 students, which brings residential housing for East Hill and its twin, Horan Hall, to 1,270. Read

College To Honor Frederic V. Salerno '65 at De La Salle Dinner

Manhattan College will present Frederic V. Salerno '65, retired vice chairman and chief financial officer of Verizon, with the De La Salle Medal at the College's annual fundraising dinner on Wednesday, Jan. 16. The ceremony will be held at The Waldorf=Astoria in New York City. Thanks to the tremendous support and efforts of Salerno, this year's dinner is on schedule to be one of the most successful in history. A native New Yorker, Salerno joined New York Telephone in 1965 and served in the telecommunications industry for 37 years. For more information about the De La Salle Dinner, please contact Stephen L. White, director of development, at (718) 862-7547 or e-mail stephen.white@manhattan.edu. Read

ON CAMPUS

College To Participate in Focus
the Nation Events on Jan. 31

Manhattan College will be among the thousands of universities, high schools and other institutions nationwide to participate in Focus the Nation events on Thursday, Jan. 31. Focus the Nation is a national educational initiative on global warming solutions for America that will culminate that day with symposia held simultaneously throughout the country. Manhattan College's schedule of events will be announced in mid-January. For more information or to become involved in the events to be held at the College, please contact Dr. Pamela Chasek, associate professor of government and director of the international studies program, at (718) 862-7248 or e-mail pamela.chasek@manhattan.edu . To read more about the Focus the Nation initiative, Click here.

Recent Grad Wins Prestigious
Engineering Scholarship

Marianna Kowalczyk '07, who earned a bachelor's in environmental engineering with cum laude distinction, was one of only 11 students nationwide that were each awarded a $20,000 scholarship for graduate school by the Environmental Engineers of the Future. She entered the University of California at Berkeley's master's program in environmental engineering this past fall. Read

Special Note From Residence Life

Please be advised that there was an error in the 2007-08 student handbook, which indicates residence halls open for the spring semester on Sunday, Jan. 20, 2008. Due to the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, students may not return before Monday, Jan. 21, 2008. Thank you for your cooperation.

FACULTY

Adjunct Professer Jeanette Brown
Named Kappe Lecturer for 2008

Jeanette Brown, an adjunct professor of environmental engineering at Manhattan College, has been selected by the American Academy of Environmental Engineers (AAEE) to serve as the prestigious Kappe Lecturer in 2008. Brown, who teaches wastewater treatment plant design, received her master's from the College. The Kappe Lecture series was inaugurated by AAEE in 1989 to share knowledge of today's practitioners with tomorrow's environmental engineers. It is an annually recurring series of lectures presented on college campuses during the fall academic term. Read

Faculty and Staff Accomplishments

Dr. Nada Marie Assaf-Anid, professor of chemical engineering, has been nominated programming chair of the environmental division of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) and will lead the programming of all sessions and symposia during the society's Philadelphia Centennial in fall 2008.

Claudia Setzer, professor of religious studies, presented her paper “A Pinch of Common Sense: Nineteenth Century Feminist Biblical Interpretation” at the American Academy of Religion's annual meeting in San Diego, Calif., this past November.

Dr. Mohammad Naraghi, professor of mechanical engineering, organized four sessions on Innovative Methods in Mechanical Engineering Education at the International Mechanical Congress in Seattle, Wash., this past November.

Dr. Kevin Farley, professor of civil and environmental engineering, was a featured speaker at the Contamination Assessment and Reduction Project Conference at The National Museum of the American Indian in New York City on Nov. 29, 2007.

Dr. Helene Tyler, assistant professor of mathematics and computer science, presented her research on “Sequences of Reflection Functors and the Preprojective Component of a Valued Quiver” at the 12th International Conference on Representatives of Algebras this past summer at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, Poland.

Dr. John Mahony, professor of environmental engineering, and Dr. Robert Mutch, adjunct professor of environmental engineering, presented the paper “A Study of Tritium in Municipal Solid and Waste and Gas” at the Eighth International Conference on Tritium Science and Technology in Rochester, N.Y., this past September.

Dr. Kathryn Weld, associate professor of mathematics and computer science, attended the national summer meeting of the Mathematical Association of America and presented the paper “Graphically Abelian Groups” in the special session on graph theory.

Dr. Anirban De, assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering, published the paper “Municipal Solid Waste Landfill Settlement: Postclosure Perspectives” in the June 2007 issue of the peer-reviewed Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering .

For more faculty and staff accomplishments, Click here.

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For questions or comments, please call
college relations at (718) 862-7232 or e-mail public_relations@manhattan.edu.

ALUMNI

Men's Hoops vs. Iona at MSG

The Manhattan Jaspers take on the Iona Gaels at Madison Square Garden on Wed., Jan. 30 as the second game of a doubleheader (game time approximately 9:00 p.m.). Starting at 7:00 p.m., the alumni office will be hosting a reception at the Play-By Play sports bar (inside the Garden, entrance at 7th Ave). Registration for the reception is required. Click here Game tickets range from $30 to $55 and can be purchased through the Manhattan College Ticket Office at (718) 862-7795 or by e-mailing jaspers.tickets@manhattan.edu.

Yearbook Party for Class of 2007

Members of the Class of 2007 are invited to attend their first alumni event, launching the release of the 2007 Manhattanite yearbook on Jan. 18 from 6:30 to 10:00 p.m. in Dante's Den. This reception of drinks and hors d'oeuvres is free, but registration must be completed online by clicking here.

Ellington Love Songs at Lincoln Center's Rose Theater Feb. 14

Join Manhattan College and Jazz at Lincoln Center for a romantic Valentine's Day evening featuring the love songs of Duke Ellington. For more information visit JALC's website here. To register, contact Ellen Kiernan by e-mail at ellen.kiernan@manhattan.edu or by phone at (718) 862-7977.

Mentoring Opportunities for Alumni

If you are interested in mentoring Manhattan students, please contact Br. Charles Barbush, F.S.C. at (718) 862-7519 or e-mail at charles.barbush@manhattan.edu. Students in the computer science and arts departments are especially in need of mentors.

Keep Your Alumni Office Up to Date

Alumni Society Logo

If you have moved recently, have changed jobs or positions, or have any other new information to share, please remember to contact the College's office of alumni relations:

Ellen Kiernan, director
ellen.kiernan@manhattan.edu
(718) 862-7977

Thomas McCarthy, assistant director
thomas.mccarthy@manhattan.edu
(718) 862-7454

Grace Feeney, officer
grace.feeney@manhattan.edu
(718) 862-7432

CALENDAR

January 2008
16 De La Salle Medal Dinner
16 Treasure Coast Lunch, Port St. Lucie, Fla.
17 Men's B-Ball at Siena *
18 Class of 2007 Alumni Yearbook Party
21 Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday
21 Residence Halls Re-open
22 First Day of Classes
30 Faculty Convocation
30 Men's B-Ball vs. Iona at MSG *

February 2008
06 Ash Wednesday
07 Mentor Dinner, Smith Auditorium
14 Ellington Love Songs at Lincoln Center
18 President's Day
20 Senate Meeting
24 Jaspers of Georgia Annual Brunch
29 Leap Year Day

* The alumni office will be hosting pregame receptions for these highlighted basketball games. For more information, please call (718) 862-7454.

View College Calendars

SPORTS

Men's Basketball Team
Enters Crucial Month

Men's Basketball

January promises to be a crucial month for the Manhattan College men's basketball team, whose overall record stands at 7-7. The Jaspers play four of their next five games away from Draddy Gym, and conclude the month against Iona at Madison Square Garden. Read

Manhattan College Basketball Weekly To Return This January

Manhattan College Basketball Weekly will return for its second season on Friday, Jan. 11 at 4:00 p.m. SportsNet New York (SNY). The program gives Manhattan fans an inside look at the happenings surrounding Jasper hoops and other sports on campus. In each episode, coach Barry Rohrssen will review the previous week, as well as what lies ahead for the Jaspers. In New York City, SNY is broadcast on Channel 26 for Time Warner Cable subscribers, Channel 60 on Cablevision and Channel 625 on DIRECTV. Please check with your cable or satellite service provider for channel listings in your local area. Read

JasperVision ...Live and On-Demand Video and Audio

Sign up now to watch all of the exciting Jaspers action in 2008! Manhattan College Athletics is excited to offer JasperVision, your online destination for exclusive live and on-demand streaming video and audio straight to your computer. This broadband video channel is the ultimate place for Jaspers fans on the web! The live video features multiple cameras and will be tied in with the Jaspers' internet radio broadcast with Ed Cohen and Brian Mahoney. The streaming video also features a pregame segment, a question with a Manhattan coach leaving the floor at halftime, and in-game instant replay. JasperVision is powered by GoJaspers.com, the Official Athletic Site of Manhattan College.

2008 Athletics Raffle

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Grand Prize: 2008 Dodge Avenger
2nd Prize: 32" LCD High Definition TV
3rd Prize: 2 Field Box Tickets to the Yankees
4th Prize: 2 Field Box Tickets to the Yankees

Tickets are $100 and only 500 will be sold.

Tickets can be purchased during home games or at the Business Office located in De La Salle Hall, room 105.
Drawing on or before Mar. 14, 2008.

For more information, call (718) 862-7456.

Cash, credit card & check are all accepted.


NEWS New Residence Hall To House Growing Number of Jaspers The class of 2012 has yet to step on campus, but arrangements are well underway for their arrival. Later this year, Manhattan College will unveil its new residence hall, East Hill Tower II, which a group of Jaspers will soon call home. Ground was broken on East Hill Tower II in December 2006, and the state-of-the-art residence hall is on schedule to be completed in July. The attractive structure that overlooks Van Cortlandt Park will eventually provide a safe home for some 550 students, which brings residential housing for East Hill and its twin, Horan Hall, to 1,270. Read College To Honor Frederic V. Salerno '65 at De La Salle Dinner Manhattan College will present Frederic V. Salerno '65, retired vice chairman and chief financial officer of Verizon, with the De La Salle Medal at the College's annual fundraising dinner on Wednesday, Jan. 16. The ceremony will be held at The Waldorf=Astoria in New York City. Thanks to the tremendous support and efforts of Salerno, this year's dinner is on schedule to be one of the most successful in history. A native New Yorker, Salerno joined New York Telephone in 1965 and served in the telecommunications industry for 37 years. For more information about the De La Salle Dinner, please contact Stephen L. White, director of development, at (718) 862-7547 or e-mail stephen.white@manhattan.edu. Read ON CAMPUS College To Participate in Focus the Nation Events on Jan. 31 Manhattan College will be among the thousands of universities, high schools and other institutions nationwide to participate in Focus the Nation events on Thursday, Jan. 31. Focus the Nation is a national educational initiative on global warming solutions for America that will culminate that day with symposia held simultaneously throughout the country. Manhattan College's schedule of events will be announced in mid-January. For more information or to become involved in the events to be held at the College, please contact Dr. Pamela Chasek, associate professor of government and director of the international studies program, at (718) 862-7248 or e-mail pamela.chasek@manhattan.edu . To read more about the Focus the Nation initiative, Click here. Recent Grad Wins Prestigious Engineering Scholarship Marianna Kowalczyk '07, who earned a bachelor's in environmental engineering with cum laude distinction, was one of only 11 students nationwide that were each awarded a $20,000 scholarship for graduate school by the Environmental Engineers of the Future. She entered the University of California at Berkeley's master's program in environmental engineering this past fall. Read Special Note From Residence Life Please be advised that there was an error in the 2007-08 student handbook, which indicates residence halls open for the spring semester on Sunday, Jan. 20, 2008. Due to the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, students may not return before Monday, Jan. 21, 2008. Thank you for your cooperation. FACULTY Adjunct Professer Jeanette Brown Named Kappe Lecturer for 2008 Jeanette Brown, an adjunct professor of environmental engineering at Manhattan College, has been selected by the American Academy of Environmental Engineers (AAEE) to serve as the prestigious Kappe Lecturer in 2008. Brown, who teaches wastewater treatment plant design, received her master's from the College. The Kappe Lecture series was inaugurated by AAEE in 1989 to share knowledge of today's practitioners with tomorrow's environmental engineers. It is an annually recurring series of lectures presented on college campuses during the fall academic term. Read Faculty and Staff Accomplishments Dr. Nada Marie Assaf-Anid, professor of chemical engineering, has been nominated programming chair of the environmental division of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) and will lead the programming of all sessions and symposia during the society's Philadelphia Centennial in fall 2008. Claudia Setzer, professor of religious studies, presented her paper “A Pinch of Common Sense: Nineteenth Century Feminist Biblical Interpretation” at the American Academy of Religion's annual meeting in San Diego, Calif., this past November. Dr. Mohammad Naraghi, professor of mechanical engineering, organized four sessions on Innovative Methods in Mechanical Engineering Education at the International Mechanical Congress in Seattle, Wash., this past November. Dr. Kevin Farley, professor of civil and environmental engineering, was a featured speaker at the Contamination Assessment and Reduction Project Conference at The National Museum of the American Indian in New York City on Nov. 29, 2007. Dr. Helene Tyler, assistant professor of mathematics and computer science, presented her research on “Sequences of Reflection Functors and the Preprojective Component of a Valued Quiver” at the 12th International Conference on Representatives of Algebras this past summer at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, Poland. Dr. John Mahony, professor of environmental engineering, and Dr. Robert Mutch, adjunct professor of environmental engineering, presented the paper “A Study of Tritium in Municipal Solid and Waste and Gas” at the Eighth International Conference on Tritium Science and Technology in Rochester, N.Y., this past September. Dr. Kathryn Weld, associate professor of mathematics and computer science, attended the national summer meeting of the Mathematical Association of America and presented the paper “Graphically Abelian Groups” in the special session on graph theory. Dr. Anirban De, assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering, published the paper “Municipal Solid Waste Landfill Settlement: Postclosure Perspectives” in the June 2007 issue of the peer-reviewed Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering . For more faculty and staff accomplishments, Click here. For questions or comments, please call college relations at (718) 862-7232 or e-mail public_relations@manhattan.edu.		ALUMNI Men's Hoops vs. Iona at MSG The Manhattan Jaspers take on the Iona Gaels at Madison Square Garden on Wed., Jan. 30 as the second game of a doubleheader (game time approximately 9:00 p.m.). Starting at 7:00 p.m., the alumni office will be hosting a reception at the Play-By Play sports bar (inside the Garden, entrance at 7th Ave). Registration for the reception is required. Click here Game tickets range from $30 to $55 and can be purchased through the Manhattan College Ticket Office at (718) 862-7795 or by e-mailing jaspers.tickets@manhattan.edu. Yearbook Party for Class of 2007 Members of the Class of 2007 are invited to attend their first alumni event, launching the release of the 2007 Manhattanite yearbook on Jan. 18 from 6:30 to 10:00 p.m. in Dante's Den. This reception of drinks and hors d'oeuvres is free, but registration must be completed online by clicking here. Ellington Love Songs at Lincoln Center's Rose Theater Feb. 14 Join Manhattan College and Jazz at Lincoln Center for a romantic Valentine's Day evening featuring the love songs of Duke Ellington. For more information visit JALC's website here. To register, contact Ellen Kiernan by e-mail at ellen.kiernan@manhattan.edu or by phone at (718) 862-7977. Mentoring Opportunities for Alumni If you are interested in mentoring Manhattan students, please contact Br. Charles Barbush, F.S.C. at (718) 862-7519 or e-mail at charles.barbush@manhattan.edu. Students in the computer science and arts departments are especially in need of mentors. Keep Your Alumni Office Up to Date If you have moved recently, have changed jobs or positions, or have any other new information to share, please remember to contact the College's office of alumni relations: Ellen Kiernan, director ellen.kiernan@manhattan.edu (718) 862-7977 Thomas McCarthy, assistant director thomas.mccarthy@manhattan.edu (718) 862-7454 Grace Feeney, officer grace.feeney@manhattan.edu (718) 862-7432 CALENDAR January 2008 16 De La Salle Medal Dinner 16 Treasure Coast Lunch, Port St. Lucie, Fla. 17 Men's B-Ball at Siena * 18 Class of 2007 Alumni Yearbook Party 21 Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday 21 Residence Halls Re-open 22 First Day of Classes 30 Faculty Convocation 30 Men's B-Ball vs. Iona at MSG * February 2008 06 Ash Wednesday 07 Mentor Dinner, Smith Auditorium 14 Ellington Love Songs at Lincoln Center 18 President's Day 20 Senate Meeting 24 Jaspers of Georgia Annual Brunch 29 Leap Year Day * The alumni office will be hosting pregame receptions for these highlighted basketball games. For more information, please call (718) 862-7454. View College Calendars SPORTS Men's Basketball Team Enters Crucial Month January promises to be a crucial month for the Manhattan College men's basketball team, whose overall record stands at 7-7. The Jaspers play four of their next five games away from Draddy Gym, and conclude the month against Iona at Madison Square Garden. Read Manhattan College Basketball Weekly To Return This January Manhattan College Basketball Weekly will return for its second season on Friday, Jan. 11 at 4:00 p.m. SportsNet New York (SNY). The program gives Manhattan fans an inside look at the happenings surrounding Jasper hoops and other sports on campus. In each episode, coach Barry Rohrssen will review the previous week, as well as what lies ahead for the Jaspers. In New York City, SNY is broadcast on Channel 26 for Time Warner Cable subscribers, Channel 60 on Cablevision and Channel 625 on DIRECTV. Please check with your cable or satellite service provider for channel listings in your local area. Read JasperVision ...Live and On-Demand Video and Audio Sign up now to watch all of the exciting Jaspers action in 2008! Manhattan College Athletics is excited to offer JasperVision, your online destination for exclusive live and on-demand streaming video and audio straight to your computer. This broadband video channel is the ultimate place for Jaspers fans on the web! The live video features multiple cameras and will be tied in with the Jaspers' internet radio broadcast with Ed Cohen and Brian Mahoney. The streaming video also features a pregame segment, a question with a Manhattan coach leaving the floor at halftime, and in-game instant replay. JasperVision is powered by GoJaspers.com, the Official Athletic Site of Manhattan College. 2008 Athletics Raffle Grand Prize: 2008 Dodge Avenger 2nd Prize: 32" LCD High Definition TV 3rd Prize: 2 Field Box Tickets to the Yankees 4th Prize: 2 Field Box Tickets to the Yankees Tickets are $100 and only 500 will be sold. Tickets can be purchased during home games or at the Business Office located in De La Salle Hall, room 105. Drawing on or before Mar. 14, 2008. For more information, call (718) 862-7456. Cash, credit card & check are all accepted.